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Just what does “Raunak” mean? To Harvard’s South Asian Dance Company (SADC), it means a venue where a fusion of dance groups from many east coast colleges come together to represent the complex South Asian community and support a spotlighted charity. The term literally means “fun and excitement,” which was just the vibe of the Raunak intercollegiate dance show, performed this past Friday and Saturday in Lowell Lecture Hall...
...looking for a hotline to Middle Australians, the battlers whose dreams and disappointments can determine an election, need look no further than the 17 short stories of Tim Winton's The Turning (Picador; 317 pages). In this trailer park of a collection, characters move from the suburbs to the coast and back again, serial sea-changers in a state of transcontinental drift. There's caravan dweller Raelene, beaten senseless by her craypot-lugger husband, who looks for God between the bruises (The Turning). And teen tomboy Agnes, who spends her evenings wading the shallows for catfish after her drunken father...
...Like Vic, Winton was born in 1960, a policeman's son who moved from Perth to the south coast as a boy. Unlike Vic, the author hasn't much to be disappointed by. With a cabinet of literary trophies for his clean, muscular prose (Nicole Kidman is negotiating to star in an adaptation of his 2002 Miles Franklin Award?winning Dirt Music), this former small-town boy is the ultimate sea-changer. Yet in The Turning, Winton presides as the deity of disappointment - from the opening lines of the first story, Big World, where two beachcombing mates graduate from high...
...State girl with a penchant for Bible studies and heavy makeup. I was an East Coast public school kid with secular parents and a socialist bent. Aside from my father, who registered with the G.O.P. every year “to vote against the crazies [read: the religious right],” I’d never met a real Republican before, not to mention a member of the religious right. These people existed for me mainly in legend, caricatured to the point that, had Barrett pasted a Swastika on her wall next to her Degas posters, I wouldn?...
Sailing Flying Juniors and 420s under a shifty south-southwesterly breeze, Harvard fell behind the first day, winning three races and losing seven to tie with Coast Guard ahead of MIT. On the next day, the north wind didn’t blow any more favorably for the Crimson, which finished 7-11. Boston College finished 5-0 to win the regatta with a 16-4 overall record...